☕ Great start to our Coffee & Careers series at the University of Heidelberg!
Thanks to Duran Sürün and Tobias Wilsch for sharing insights on the transition from postdoc to independent research careers.
Looking forward to upcoming sessions featuring more diverse career paths! Stay tuned! 🚀
🎉 Last week, HUPs members Rachel Gilmore and Sabrina Lewis attended the very first German Postdoc Network Conference 2026.
Rachel also served on the organizing committee, helping shape the conference. 🤝
Great to see such a vibrant national postdoc community! Already looking forward to next year! 🚀
Our first HUPs event of the year = a success! 🎉
Almost 60 participants joined our Heidelberg-themed Pub Quiz & Networking Night.
🏆 Winners: Slow Beer Pils #1 (Pietro & the Blue Baracudas)
🥈 Shared 2nd: Food for Thought & The Imposters
Can’t wait to see you at our next event!
Starting 2026 by introducing the people behind our Postdoc Network!
👋🏻 Meet Sabrina Lewis, President of our network. She studies spatial omics, using microscopy to profile immune responses and drug toxicity in patient tumours. She founded the network to connect postdocs across disciplines!
🎄 Christmas Market Meetup!
Join HUPs, DKFZ, Max Planck & EMBL postdocs on Dec 10 at 6PM.
📍 Meet outside Hof-Apotheke (Sofienstraße 11).
Family & friends welcome!
Register 👉 heidelbergunipostd.wixsite.com/heidelberg-p...
I got a new sample holder for the microCT I need to test. Want see inside a coffee bean at 4.3um resolution? Of course you do. Sample provided by Rumble Coffee Roasters.
🔬🏥 Gesundheitsforschung für die Menschen im InnoLÄND! In der Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim wird zu zentralen Gesundheitsfragen geforscht. Mit der Innovationscampus-Förderung ermöglichen wir Grundlagenforschung mit Potenzial für biomedizinische Durchbrüche. 🔗 youtu.be/LZN-Sx9wfVQ
A microscope on the left, an identical one on the right except that it's glowing green. The left is captioned "Fluoresence Microscope", the right "Flueorescent microcscope"
Know the difference.
This was a lot of fun and I'm inspired now to host more night science events in the pub, and even not just with scientists!
Big thanks to all co-authors at @wehi-research.bsky.social and @onjcri.org.au: Jean Berthelet, @drlachie.bsky.social, @pradeepr.bsky.social, Farrah El-Saafin, Caroline Bell, @shalinhnaik.bsky.social, @delphine-merino.bsky.social, Verena Wimmer, @krogersiooi.bsky.social
We developed LeGO-3D, an experimental and computational pipeline integrating optical barcoding, vessel casting, tissue clearing, and #lightsheet #microscopy to visualise how breast cancer cells metastasise and interact with the blood vessels in 3D.
I’m super excited to share that my PhD work is now out in npj Imaging (@natureportfolio.nature.com)! 🔬
You can read the paper here: rdcu.be/eOKdU
I did it again. @globias.bsky.social #GloBIAS2025
Here's hoping I get a chance again next year.
Introducing Count COMET 🧛🧛♀️
Happy Halloween! 🎃
Last week our lab came together for our annual lab retreat, kindly hosted by @hlsalliance.bsky.social! We exchanged ideas about our research, spatial omics, and took part in some fun (albeit slightly competitive) activities.
Haha would love to see that 😂
Animation was courtesy of @drlachie.bsky.social ☺️
Thanks so much!
Stunning, what @sabrinalewis.bsky.social just showed at #EMBLSpatialBiology! LeGO depicts cell populations in lung metastases in 3D: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6... 🧪 Soon out in npj Imaging @natureportfolio.nature.com
Excited to be at #EMBLSpatialBiology #ESSB2025 this week and present our new 3D imaging and analysis pipeline ‘LeGO-3D’
We’re excited to be at @embl.org this week for Spatial Biology: the melting pot. We’re looking forward to hearing about some awesome science 🔬 #EMBLSpatialBiology
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
🌟 Yesterday we kicked off #PAW2025 with our first event! Together with DKFZ PDN, we hosted Dr. Susanne Scheer (heiTRACKS) for an inspiring hybrid seminar on career barriers. 40+ postdocs joined onsite & online. More PAW events coming this week – see our program!
I am excited to share my first work in @schapirolab.bsky.social on Multiple Myeloma (MM) in collaboration with the Standal Lab from NTNU Norway. We use Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) on bone marrow biopsies from MM and precursor patients (details below): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1 week to go!
On September 4 '25, we had the pleasure to welcome Primeminister Kretschmann and Science Minister Olschowksi to our new co-working and seminar rooms.
Thanks to all the scientist who presented their work!
@hlsalliance.bsky.social
Read the full article on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/posts/heidel...
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
📅 Mark your calendars: Postdoc Appreciation Week is Sept 15–19! 🎉
HUPs has exciting events planned + join the program at paw-germany.de 🌍
Details & registration coming soon — watch your inbox! 💌
#PAW2025 #HUPs
The Confocal Room
